10 1921 Cloudster passenger biplane The first aircraft wholly designed and built by Douglas, the Cloudster also is the first airplane to lift a useful load exceeding its own weight. It’s been tremendous, starting with the first transaction I did on a Boeing aircraft, which was in 1977, when I bought our first new 737-200. That began a long history of acquiring new aircraft from Boeing that resulted in well over a thousand airplanes that I’ve purchased. There’s been a long association and Boeing has made a major imprint on my career and my footprint in the aircraft airline industry. There’s definitely a long-term partnership of working together and coming up with commercial aircraft solutions for the global aircraft industry. Fly high for the next 100 years. STEVEN UDVAR-HAZY Chairman and chief executive officer for Air Lease Corp., a pioneer in the airplane leasing business; he previously founded and led International Lease Finance Corp., one of the world’s largest airplane leasing companies Boeing has been a significant part of my life, beginning with my engineering studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. My first aerospace company employment was with Boeing Computer Services, and later I worked on the space shuttle design and construction—followed by the special opportunity to fly on the shuttle a few times under the Boeing operations contract. Boeing has continued its mission into space with the International Space Station and the CST-100 Starliner. I expect that Boeing will continue to be an aerospace leader in the 21st century. The one word that best captures my definition of Boeing is “excellence.” Happy Birthday! BONNIE DUNBAR Former NASA astronaut who logged more than 50 days in space as a mission specialist and payload commander on board five space shuttle flights; after retiring from NASA she served as president and CEO of the Museum of Flight in Seattle and is now a research professor in aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University I also flew the B-25, P-39 and P-47, but the P-51 was it! It was a good airplane and my favorite for the mission. The P-51 was very good for escorting bombers. It had auxiliary tanks that were carried under each wing. You had to switch to outside tanks when you needed to refuel … So Boeing is 100 years old? Happy Birthday. We are almost the same age. WASHINGTON DUBOIS ROSS Now 97, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, African American U.S. military pilots who gained fame during WWII for escorting B-17s on missions over Germany. The tails of their P-51s were painted red (illustrated below) and they became known as the “Red Tails”
Frontiers July 2016 Issue
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